xvi, 213 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-202) and index

Machine generated contents note: 1 The Mental Lives of Animals: Introduction -- On minds, thought and intelligence in animals -- Historical background: Darwin, Wallace and the minds of beasts -- Two cautionary tales -- Clever Hans: the horse with the intelligence of a -- 14-year-old child -- Lloyd Morgan's canon - the most awesome weapon in -- animal psychology -- Now and the future -- Further reading -- Websites -- 2 Other Minds, Other Matters -- Consciousness in mind -- Imitation - the sincerest form of flattery -- Is that me? Studies on mirror recognition -- Do you see what I see? -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- Websites -- 3 Detecting Cause and Effect -- Pavlovian conditioning -- Outline -- Pavlovian conditioning through the animal kingdom -- What is learned in Pavlovian conditioning? -- Instrumental conditioning -- Outline -- Instrumental conditioning through the animal kingdom -- What is learnt in instrumental conditioning? -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- Websites 4 Other Ways of Seeing the World - I: Physical Dimensions -- Vision -- The pigeon's eye view of the world - a case study in -- animal vision -- Patterns and pictures -- Smell -- Hearing -- Magnetic sensitivity -- Electrical sense -- Sensitivity to air pressure -- Navigation -- Pigeon homing -- The sun compass -- Magnetic compass -- Odour maps -- Bees foraging -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- Websites -- 5 Other Ways of Seeing the World - II: Abstract Dimensions -- Object permanence -- Concept learning -- Same-different -- Stimulus equivalence -- Perceptual concepts -- Time -- Learning about the time of day -- Learning about short time intervals -- Numbers -- Relative number judgments: more or less -- Absolute number -- Counting -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- Websites -- 6 Remembering -- Simple memories -- Short-term memory -- Capacity -- Duration -- Serial order effects -- What causes forgetting? -- Long-term memory -- Food-storing birds -- Marsh tits and chickadees -- Nutcrackers -- Pigeons -- Implicit and explicit memory -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- Websites -- 7 Reasoning -- Spatial reasoning -- Tool use -- Insight -- Reasoning by analogy -- Series learning - I: transitive inference -- Series learning - II: linear ordering -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- Websites -- 8 Communication and Language -- Ape language studies -- Words -- Sentences -- Language training with other species -- Communicating with dolphins -- Irene Pepperberg and Alex -- Animal communication in the wild -- Vervet monkeys of Kenya -- Dolphins -- The dance of the honey-bee -- Conclusions -- Further reading -- Websites -- 9 Conclusions and Comparisons -- Brain size -- Learning set -- Are there really differences between species? -- Further reading -- References -- Index

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